Senior Consultant - Senior Manager, Banking Financial Resource Management

Deloitte

  • London
  • Permanent
  • Full-time
  • 1 month ago
Connect to your IndustryWe are seeking experienced financial services practitioners to join Deloitte's Actuarial Insurance & Banking team ('AI&B') as a Senior Consultant or Manager.The AI&B Banking team, which operates under Deloitte Consulting, is expanding our offering and have become increasingly involved in designing and implementing major financial resource management initiatives for Tier 1 banks globally, with a primary objective of delivering shareholder returns. These initiatives encompass financial resourcing strategy, operational framework and risk and regulations, all rooted in a thorough understanding of the intricacies within the banking sector and supported by state-of-the-art analytical methodologies and tools.You will be joining a team of 30 management consultants with diverse analytical skills, industry experience and banking backgrounds. Our team comprises experts in financial analysis, economics, quantitative modelling, and data science, with experience drawn from both industry and advisory backgrounds in strategy, finance, treasury, risk, regulatory, commercial, and operational domains.Over the past three years, our banking team has experienced a high growth rate, while maintaining a remarkably low attrition level. We expect that growth to continue as our clients increasingly seek our help to guide strategies, measure and manage performance, allocate scarce financial resources, develop customer service innovations, manage risk, respond to regulatory and other stakeholder demands and expectations, and optimise operations. We are hugely ambitious and excited for the future.Connect to your career at DeloitteDeloitte drives progress. Using our vast range of expertise, we help our clients' become leaders wherever they choose to compete. To do this, we invest in outstanding people. We build teams of future thinkers, with diverse talents and backgrounds, and empower them all to reach for and achieve more.What brings us all together at Deloitte? It's how we approach the thousands of decisions we make every day. How we behave, our beliefs and our attitudes. In other words: our values. Whatever we do, wherever we are in the world, we lead the way, serve with integrity, take care of each other, foster inclusion, and collaborate for measurable impact. These five shared values lead every decision we make and action we take, guiding us to deliver impact how and where it matters most.Connect to your opportunityOur project work spans a wide range of engagements - from designing and implementing prototypes to solutions in the financial resource management domain to supporting large scale transformation or remediation programmes. We often work collaboratively in multi-disciplinary teams alongside other Deloitte practice areas and Service Lines.Our recent work includes:
  • Providing strategic advice and guidance to Tier 1 banks on balance sheet optimization and management, ensuring compliance with regulatory requirements and identifying opportunities for risk mitigation.
  • Developing cost of equity frameworks, assessing credit ratings for illiquid assets, and contributing to sustainable finance initiatives in the banking industry.
  • Supporting clients in strategy development by bringing insights on client demand response to price changes and capital allocation frameworks to inform pricing strategy implementation across product and client segments.
  • Collaborating with clients to design and develop data models, dashboards, and analytical frameworks to gain insights into costs, resources, and key metrics for efficient decision-making and cost reduction measures.
  • Manage large scale projects and programs such as technology implementation, M&A and regulatory oversight, track progress and communicate with stakeholders.
  • Spearheading business restructuring initiatives to address pricing and charges remediation, working closely with cross-functional teams and senior stakeholders at a large UK wealth manager.
  • Overseeing complex investment platform migration projects for large European investment managers, enhancing investment algorithms, credit evaluation, and tax optimization within core engines.
  • Advising on treasury-related areas, including capital management, liquidity management, funds transfer pricing, and interest rate risk management.
  • Driving the development and enhancement of treasury risk management frameworks, incorporating best practices, regulatory requirements, and aligning treasury, risk, finance, and business objectives.
Connect to your skills and professional experienceYour contributions will include supporting engagement teams with the analysis of the client problem statement, identification of options for its potential solution and the implementation of our recommendation into changes to methodology / systems and operating model, depending on the phase of the project.You will do so by leveraging your prior project or industry experience. Whilst the most important skill is adaptability and curiosity to develop new solutions to our clients' problems, your prior skills and experience should include a combination of:(i) Core banking industry knowledge developed in finance, treasury, risk, or product teams (as practitioner, supervisor and/ or adviser); and(ii) Proficiency in analytical, modelling, communication, and presentation techniques.Your specific technical skills, knowledge and experience should include:Essential
  • Familiarity with the broad spectrum of banking and capital markets products and services, their financial dynamics and risk profiles, and the broad outlines of banking regulation as well as governance, control processes and frameworks.
  • Familiarity with the purpose and format of banks' financial reports and other disclosures, and the key financial, risk and other indicators they reveal.
  • Advanced analytical skills in the Office suite.
  • Familiarity with financial models and practical use of statistical frameworks in the context of financial services applications.
  • Strong interpersonal and communication skills to effectively collaborate with clients and stakeholders at all levels.
  • Strong business acumen and understanding of the broader economic landscape and its impact on the banking industry.
  • Strong project management skills, with the ability to lead and support projects across different clients and initiatives.
  • Adaptability and ability to work in multi-disciplinary teams, collaborating with stakeholders from different practice areas within Deloitte and across the industry.
  • Strong problem-solving skills, with the ability to analyse complex client situations and data and provide specific insights and solutions.
  • Attention to detail and a commitment to delivering high-quality work within project timelines and client expectations.
  • Proven ability to navigate complex projects, manage multiple priorities, and deliver results within tight deadlines.
Desirable
  • You will be committed to ongoing personal professional development, ideally being either already enrolled / part-qualified in, or willing to consider, a professional course of study such as CFA, FRM or similar.
  • Prior experience in either Balance Sheet Management, ALM, structuring of hedge programmes or pricing strategies across banking book products.
  • Familiarity with the asset and wealth management industry, their customer needs and market structures, which are forcing asset managers to adapt their value propositions and business models to remain vibrant and valuable.
  • Advanced knowledge in quantitative models and Object-Oriented Programming in Python or other modern programming language (i.e., Java, C#, SAS, R).
  • Proficiency in business modelling and formulation of comprehensive business cases is advantageous.
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